Re: Sending keystrokes to the OS

[Lennart Borgman]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Evans Winner <thorne@timbral.net> wrote:
> I don't suppose there's a way to send arbitrary keystrokes
> to the OS from Emacs? -- like, as a way to use Emacs as a
> kind of keyboard macro server for the window manager?  If
> not, I don't suppose anyone knows how to do something like
> that with Clisp or sbcl?  The point being that I would like
> to find a way to write little macros I can activate from any
> application using some kind of prefix key combination,
> maybe, (and in some kind of lispy way, preferably).  I think
> with stumpwm I could do it, but alas, I am not using an OS
> (in this context) that is compatible with stumpwm.  Any
> pointers would be useful.  Thanks.

There is nothing like that in Emacs. If you want to write something
yourself then look for accessibility API:s.